CSI and The Bill
Popularity of these sorts of narratives to British culture and on British TV. Exploring the ways that criminals and police are represented, and the pleasures these texts offfer/anxieties they address. What sort of cops are they and what sort of representation of law and justice does this create?
Reading academic texts on police narratives on TV and representations of crime, criminality, police, the law and justice.
Primary research will be explore these representations in your chosen media texts, then try to uncover what sort of reasons audiences give for enjoying them or watching them. So you need to identify a group of fans fo cop shows. What are the pleasures they say they get from the tv progs, and how does what they say confirm or problematise the theories about crime narratives you have read about in your secondary academic reading? (For example, one theory is that so many crime narratives are available in our culture because we NEED to be REASSURED that society is basically good and functions well, and that criminals get caught. Another theory is that crime narratives allow us to experience transgression from our straight and narrow right side of the law lives...). How are criminals portrayed? Is criminality seen as a socially caused thing, or are criminals just plain bad?
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